‘Archer’ Dropping ISIS Acronym For Spy Agency

Kinda saw this one coming. Creators of FX’s animated spy farce say that Archer is dropping the acronym for its fictional covert agency International Secret Intelligence Service. With Islamic State jihadists tearing through Syria and Iraq and closing in on the latter’s capital city, it just makes sense to sidestep the ISIS name. (Anyone remember that appetite-suppression product called Ayds whose sales for some reason plunged by the mid-’80s?) The change will be acknowledged during the Season 6 premiere in January, but the ISIS name won’t be removed from episodes of the first five years.